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Thursday, March 29, 2012

I just want to take a minute to share a little about last weekend's Paper Wings Productions launch party. Wow Wow Wow! What a great time that was! It was fun seeing my stamping friends that I've known for a few years, and I loved getting to share the enthusiasm over the new stamp line with all of the guests who joined us Saturday. Carrie, Shay and I were busy busy with demos and make and takes that day and everyone seemed to enjoy trying out the new images. The ladies at Stamp Antonio made us feel at home and put out an amazing spread of goodies. That was such a nice day!

It was such an emotional moment seeing my mom walk in and see the stamps on the wall, and I think she was a little emotional too. I really appreciate her making the trip - and thanks to Liz and Penny for bringing her along to be there for the party. It meant a lot to me. Liz also helped us with make and takes and brought some cute samples too! Thanks Liz!! I also met some new friends - Andrea and Todd - who came in from Houston to check out the stamps, and to top it off, she was one of the door prize winners - AWESOME!

I have some more PWP samples to share with you today. These showcase the Whimsical Pattern Alphabet set. This set is one of those you will use over and over. These letters would be great for sentiments, personalizing cards or scrapbooking pages, and can even be used for creating backgrounds. Take a look at these samples.

Many of the elements of this card use punches. The border and the candles are Stampin' Up! and the flames are first punched with a flower punch and then cut in a flame shape. The oval and scallop oval are from Spellbinders.

I thought these playful letters needed would look great in bright colors and found the pallette in the patterned papers among my scraps. All colors here are from Colorbox Chalk inks, and then wrote the word "wish" with a Pitt Pen. Cute and Colorful! Great for kids!!

I also wanted to try my hand at using the letters for a background. I went with a baby shower themed card here, but could be great for an alphabet sampler or school related projects.

This time the letters are stamped in a very dark blue chalk ink on both the background and for the sentiment. Then I used colored pencils to coordinate with the pattern paper. How great is this that the paper is stripes and dots and so are the letters. The "welcome" is also handwritten in Stampin' Up marker.

I came across a beautiful card from this post by Anabelle O'Malley and was suddenly inspired. I usually hoard all of my goodies, but this time, I was ready to pull out anything and everything. Lace doilies, bird and heart punches, spellbinders, sticker strips, ribbon and red heart buttons. This card makes me happy!!!

This time, I left the letters stamped in black and repeated the dots throughout the card with the papers, stickers and even the ribbon. Looks like Valentine's Day, but would love to send or receive this anytime of year.

Monday, March 19, 2012

How do you take your coffee? I like it creamy and sweet, cold or hot! I also like it stamped, colored, paper pieced, embossed, and more! Here are a few samples of cards and atc's I've made recently using my new coffee stamps designed for Paper Wings Productions. The sets are called "Play With Your Coffee" and "Frothy Concoctions". For a detailed view at these stamps, check out this post by Shay at the Aviary blog!

If you saw this post, you will recognize the card's focal image was used to create a background here. I used white embossing powder on dark brown cardstock.

I wanted to make a standard travel cup but knew this card could use some fun colors. I added strips of cardstock and pattern papers in fun sherbet shades, and colored the heart in a matching pink/coral hue.

This is my take on a simple gift card holder. I love to give (and receive) coffee gift cards, and thought this would be a great way to personalize the gift. I stamped the cup, scalloped label, marshmallows and flourishes from Flourish Fun 2 on watercolor paper, and used watercolor crayons to color the scallops, cup and shadow. Quick and easy!

On this "romantic" coffee card, both the mug and the cup are paperpieced and leaning in toward each other. The coffee beans make a perfect border along with the scallop oval looking a little "coffee stained" with the sentiment I've bean missing you.

Using book paper as my background, I wanted the steam to still stand out, so I stamped and embossed the steam stamps on vellum, and adhered to the cups with vellum dots. Since the cups are mounted with foam tape, the steam is set off against the background.

I bet you are wondering about the difference in the orange cup here and the pink cup above. They are actually the same cup, but with the addition of the "pedastal" stamp added here. I think it gives the cup a more "feminine" look.

I really love frappe style coffee drinks, and the one on this card looks good enough to drink. The lid is stamped on vellum again to allow a look at the whipped cream - yum!!! Flourishes on the cup are from Flourish Fun 1 and background flourish from Flourish Fun 2.

Don't really like coffee? No problem! This atc features a sweet milkshake, and even includes a cherry on top. The cup would also be cute cut from silver paper for a diner/malt shop look - Fun!

One more atc - this one reminds me of a cappucino when the coffee and foam start to mix. I also used the mmm and beans to add a playful border. The background is a mixture of three different color sprays.

Now I really want a coffee - maybe on the way to work tomorrow. I hope you enjoyed the samples, and make sure to head over to Paper Wings Productions for these and many more cute stamps!

Thanks for looking - and happy crafting!

Supplies: note - all projects are made with Play With Your Coffee and Frothy Concoctions stamp sets from Paper Wings Productions.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

The BIG day has finally arrived! Today is the launch of the
Paper Wings Productions website. This company has been in the works for many, many
months now, and we are so excited to finally get to share it with you. Carrie
Avery, owner and artist extraordinaire, has really outdone herself getting
everything ready! While you are there, check out the slide show samples on the
home page, read about the designers, and of course - SHOP for some fabulous
stamps. You will also want to check out The Aviary,
the official blog for Paper Wings Productions. Today's post launches the
website, and also details info on our clear stamp incentive, for a limited time only, and about our
LAUNCH PARTY at Stamp
Antonio Arts. If you live in or around the San Antonio area, you will
want to check this out.

Check back soon for more samples of our new stamps! We
really think you’re gonna love them!